The videos were taken with either a Canon
Elura Digital Video Camera (aka the MabelCAM) or an Olympus C-2020Z
digital camera.

The Olympus can record up to 15 secs of
"high quality" or 30 secs of "standard quality"
QuickTime movies without sound. The Quicktime movies were transferred
to my computer and edited in Quicktime Player Pro to improve
brightness and contrast, reduce frame size and number of frames
per second, and finally use the Sorenson compression, all of
which reduces the files from around 4 MB direct from the Olympus
to 400 KB in size.

The Elura digital video was edited in IntroDV,
using a IEEE1394 to connect the DV camera to the computer (now
standard in iMacDVs but requires a "firewire" or ilink
card for a Wintel machine). IntroDV is an entry level digital
video editing program from Digital Origin (formerly Radius).
Sections were clipped out of the video footage and combined using
different transitions. The resulting 4 and 7 seconds of video
takes 16 & 27 MBs, respectively, of disk space! I "threw
away" information by reducing the size of the video (hence
the "small picture") and cut the number of frames per
second in half and saved using lower quality and in the Big Cry
changed the compression to Sorenson video for QuickTime.

Hopefully you will be able to view the
above video whether you have a Mac or Wintel computer. Let me know
if you have any problems or suggestions with the video.